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USS Lancaster

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Screw Sloop of War:

Laid down in December 1857, at Philadelphia Navy Yard

Launched, 20 October 1858

Commissioned USS Lancaster, 12 May 1859, CAPT. John Rudd, in command

Assigned to the Pacific Squadron until 1866

Decommissioned, 19 March 1867, at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.

Recommissioned, 26 August 1869, to serve as flagship for the South Atlantic squardon

Decommissioned, 31 July 1875, at Portsmouth, N.H.

Recommissioned, 26 August 1881, to serve as flagship for the European squardon

Reassigned as flagship for the South Atlantic squadron in 1885

Reassigned as flagship for the Eurropean squardon in 1888

Decommissioned, 7 September 1889 at New York Navy Yard and was towed to Portsmouth, N.H. for repairs

Recommissioned, 19 March 1891 to serve as flagship for the Asiatic squadron

Decommissioned, 30 June 1894, at New York Navy Yard

Recommissioned, 12 Septmeber 1895, for assignment to the South Atlantic squardon

Decommissioned, 31 December 1897, at Boston Navy Yard

Recommissioned, 5 May 1898, to serve as station ship at Key West during the Spanish American War

Reassigned, 3 September 1898 as gunnery training ship at Portsmouth, N.H.

Decommissioned, 1 May 1902, at Philadelphai Navy Yard

Lancaster served as receiving ship at the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 16 November 1903 to 31 March 1912

Transferred to the Bureau of Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1 February 1913

Stuck from the Naval Register, 31 December 1915

Ex-USS Lancaster served as quarantine detention ship at Reedy Island, DL. Quarantine Station from 1916 to 1920.

New York Quarantine Station from 1920 to 1929

Final Disposition, sold in 1929, broken up in 1933.

Specifications:
Displacement 2,362 t.
Length 235' 8"
Beam 46'
Draft 18' 6"
Speed 10 kts.
Complement 367
Armament

twenty-four 9" Dahlgren smoothbores

one 2" Dahlgren smoothbore

two 30-pdr Parrott rifles
Propulsion steam and sail

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	67k	USS Lancaster was the last Old Navy warship on the effective list and in commission during the Spanish-American War.		Robert Hurst

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